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If you think that there will never be overpopulation than you could not be farther from the truth.
You say that you could fit everyone in Texas, and sure you could. But then for anyone to be able to work they would have to get in a plane and travel somewhere hundred maybe thousands away to be able to work. The analogy is completely useless and there is no reason to even bring it up.
Next if you think overpopulation isn't a thing than you are telling me that infinite people could live on earth. Because that can't happen. Now that's an extreme but in truth the earth could support even a comparatively small number like 100 billion. As of writing this there are 7.148 billion people here. And right now it hasn't gotten so bad that the population has started to decrease, no I fact it is growing faster now than ever. If you look at a world population over time, we all know it's exponential but really look at it, an you will see that 100 years ago the world population wasn't even two billion. That means that the population growth over all of human history up till that point was amost two billion (1.8). And since than, in one hundred year we have more than tripled it. Some people have it good, namely in the west, so why on earth would they give it up. People are incredibly mean to each other, so what you are talking about is a utopia, and even if we could all be perfect we would still eventually have to large a population to support it be it in five years, fifty years a hundred or a thousand it would eventually happen unless we leave the planet but that's another conversation. Really you have less to worry about than it getting to crowded and more about being killed in war or dehydration, starvation, addiction or something else stupid. So your argument that it isn't true is wrong. Simply look at India or China. There are to many people there. He'll forget about Texas realistically ever one could live in America and it would work. But we would have to get rid of the 'natural' parts of this country which I personally wouldn't care at all, but others would and you would have to go through hell changing their minds or forcing it through. Then come the problems or rounding up everyone and movin them here. And figuring out how you would feed them all. And provide everything from housing and clothing to giving them water and disposing of their waste.
It would actually be a lot better to split the population into say populations of one billion each and movin to one place and setting up there. That would work for a bit, especially if each group worked one one thing more than others and than traded. But alas something like that just wouldn't happen if you looked at the technicalities.
So you're wrong, over population is a thing, but it's not because we are running out of things or space (don't get me wrong, that will happen too at some point, just not yet.) but because things aren't perfect and people don't want to share.
Nothing like a good internet rant...
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